The British, it seems, are not the only ones who mastered the strategy of divide and conquer.
That would be less a matter of divide and rule than a strategy of divide and go.
It has spared this traditionally oppressed minority the worst excesses of its crackdown, as it attempts to play a "Kurdish card" in a strategy of divide and rule.
The military used a strategy of divide and rule, encouraging splits in the militant groups to weaken and control them, he said.
With the Russians back in Grozny, the "Chechenisation" of the conflict had begun to take effect: the slow but steady buying up of Chechen fighters, including former separatists, to serve the Kremlin's strategy of divide and rule.
While the Southern political strategy of divide and conquer gained ground in recent decades by appealing to our fears, not to our hopes, the country lost its way and now faces spiraling declines.
Unfortunately, his insistence that working men's problems are the fault of feminism seems set to stir up yet more bitterness between men and women in the workplace: a classic strategy of divide and rule.
Since the start of the Syrian uprising, however, Damascus has been accused of reviving its support for the P.K.K. in a strategy of divide and rule against the opposition.
